Sujan

Devops/Cloud Engineer
Ph: +1 (469) 731-4312
Email: sujanmaxii@[Link]

Professional Summary:
IT Professional with 11+ years of experience in Software Configuration Management (SCM),
Systems Deployment Engineering (SDE), and end-to-end DevOps practices across CI/CD
pipelines, build/release management, and cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, and GCP.
 Strong expertise in DevOps, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure, and
Automation using tools like Azure, AWS, Jenkins, Maven, GitHub, Ant, SonarQube,
Ansible, Chef, Tomcat, JBoss, and Linux.
 Proficient as an Azure IAM and DevOps Engineer, with hands-on experience in
automating, configuring, and deploying solutions in Microsoft Azure environments.
 Solid understanding of Azure services, including Azure Compute, Web Apps, Data
Factory, Storage, Media & Content Delivery, Networking, Hybrid Integration, and
Identity & Access Management.
 Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and
ARM templates.
 Managed Azure resources like Azure Security Center, Backup, and Site Recovery (via
Operations Management Suite - OMS).
 Developed a Security Chatbot in Azure integrating natural language AI, 10+ APIs, and 3
databases to support the security operations team.
 Experience working with databases like Azure Cosmos DB, Managed Instance (MI),
Azure PaaS SQL, and SQL on Azure VM.
 Proficient in AWS IAM for secure access to Vault secrets using Access Keys and Secret
Keys.
 Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools including Jenkins and Bamboo for automating
builds and deployments.
 Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration of
microservices.
 Utilized Azure Databricks and Kubernetes to perform data transformations using Spark
SQL and DataFrames for efficient processing.
 Set up and maintained highly available AWS RDS instances for SQL Server and Oracle
databases.
 Migrated on-premise SQL Server databases to AWS using DMS (Database Migration
Service).
 Designed and implemented ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized
logging and search functionality.
 Developed data processing workflows and ETL pipelines across various platforms.
 Built ETL pipelines in GCP using Apache Airflow with various operators to manage and
schedule jobs.
  Deep experience setting up CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, GitHub, Chef,
Terraform, and AWS.
 Deployed and integrated ELK Stack with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch for application
monitoring and log analytics.
 Designed and managed AWS infrastructure using EC2, Route 53, S3, RDS,
CloudFormation, CloudWatch, API Gateway, SQS, and IAM with a focus on scalability,
high availability, and fault tolerance.
 Practical knowledge in Kusto Query Language (KQL) for efficient data querying and
transformation.
 Experience with Linux virtualization technologies such as VMware.
 Managed containerized applications using Kubernetes, and deployed microservices using
Docker.
 Worked with AWS SageMaker to build, train, and deploy machine learning models
rapidly.
 Integrated data from HES Data Lake into platforms like Stature, Impact, BowTie, VnV
Assurance, and ADS Equipment using Azure Databricks and PySpark/Python/SQL.
 Skilled in designing and orchestrating data pipelines, end-to-end ETL/ELT processes in
AWS, while coordinating tasks across teams.
 Managed user access and resource quotas using AWS IAM, including policy creation for
security and access control.
 Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Jenkins, and configured
software/services using Chef cookbooks.

Technical Skills:
 Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, LINUX, Mac OS, RedHat.
 CD/CI Tools: Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Bamboo, Hudson,
Build/release/deploy, Vagrant.
 Cloud Services: AWS (EC2, VPC, EBS, S3, AMI, SQS, SNS, RDS, Cloud Watch, Dynamo
DB, IAM, Cloud Trial, Direct Connect), Azure (Virtual Machines, VNET, Storage Account,
Monitoring/Alerts), GCP.
 Programming & Scripting Languages: Terraform, Bash/Shell, PowerShell, Java, Python, Perl,
Ruby, YAML
 Build Tools: Maven, MS Build
 Monitoring & Testing Tools: Nagios, Splunk, ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana), Cloud
Watch, Junit
 Networking Tools: TCP/IP, DHCP, LDAP, SCP, SMTP, FTP
 Web Technologies: Servlets, JDBC, JSP, XML, HTML, Java Script
 Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla
 Web/ Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, Web sphere, Web logic
 Databases: Oracle, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server, MS Access, Dynamo DB, PostgreSQL
 Versioning Tools: GIT, SVN, Bitbucket, TFS, VSS, CVS

Professional Experience

Wells Fargo – Charlotte, NC Jan 2024 – Till Date

Devops/Azure Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Proven expertise in managing the entire lifecycle of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and
Configuration as Code (CaC) to develop and maintain enterprise cloud solutions.
 Configured, deployed, and administered Microsoft Identity and Access Management (IAM)
tools including Active Directory, AD Federation Services, Azure AD Connect, and various
Azure resources.
 Implemented and managed user risk mitigation strategies using Azure AD Identity Protection,
Conditional Access Policies, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM).
 Oversaw IAM for Azure subscriptions, including Azure AD, Application Proxy, and Pass-
through Authentication.
 Managed Azure Databricks infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration with network,
security, messaging, and remote access systems across teams.
 Resolved Databricks performance, connectivity, and security issues, ensuring stable and
efficient operations.
 Administered user roles by creating and managing “Admin Groups” via Admin Console,
Groups API 2.0, SCIM API 2.0, and SCIM-enabled identity providers.
 Built and secured cloud infrastructure, supported runtime environments, and worked cross-
functionally with engineering teams.
 Leveraged Kubernetes within Azure Databricks for data transformations using Spark SQL and
DataFrames, optimizing data processing workflows.
 Maintained automation scripts and tooling, proactively troubleshooting and resolving
technical issues.
 Experienced in debugging and maintaining RESTful services and working with API
implementations.
 Diagnosed and resolved issues in Azure App Service, Azure Policy, and Azure Security
Center, including application failures and resource contention.
 Deployed and orchestrated microservices and applications using Azure Kubernetes Service
(AKS).
 Established connectivity between Amazon S3 and AWS SageMaker, facilitating predictive
analytics and exporting inference data to Amazon Redshift.
 Fine-tuned AKS configurations for enhanced performance, scalability, and optimal resource
utilization.
 Proficient in SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and SQL Server Reporting Services
(SSRS).
 Developed custom data pipelines using Kusto Query Language (KQL) for real-time data
stream processing and enrichment, enabling timely insights.
 Skilled in operating within hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including AWS and open-
source technologies.
 Designed and automated Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure using Terraform and
Deployment Manager.
 Collaborated with various teams to secure and configure GCP services, such as Cloud
Storage, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Bigtable.
 Applied Azure Security Center recommendations and policies to strengthen cloud security
posture and minimize vulnerabilities.
  Conducted code and ETL pipeline reviews prior to transitioning builds to the testing
environment, ensuring code quality and stability.
 Configured Azure Key Vault for secure management of secrets, certificates, and keys, and
integrated it with other Azure services for authentication.
 Designed and implemented Azure infrastructure using Terraform, including reusable modules,
state management, and Azure DevOps integration.
 Automated Azure infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform, significantly
improving deployment accuracy and team productivity.

USAA – San Antonio, TX Jan 2022 – Dec 2023

Devops/Azure Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Extensive hands-on experience with the complete lifecycle of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
and Configuration as Code (CaC) to architect and deploy scalable enterprise cloud solutions.
 Configured, deployed, and managed Microsoft Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools
such as Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services, Azure AD Connect, and a
wide range of Azure resources.
 Implemented user risk management using Azure AD Identity Protection, Conditional Access
Policies, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to secure access and enforce compliance.
 Administered IAM configurations across Azure Subscriptions, including Azure AD,
Application Proxy, and Pass-through Authentication.
 Resolved issues related to Azure AD B2B collaboration and Azure AD B2C, ensuring
seamless business-to-business and business-to-consumer identity management.
 Migrated on-premises virtual machines to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) subscriptions
using Azure Site Recovery.
 Integrated and harmonized data from the HES Data Lake into multiple platforms (Stature,
Impact, BowTie, VnV Assurance, and ADS Equipment) via Azure Databricks using PySpark,
Python, and SQL.
 Worked extensively with Azure services, including Compute (Web/Worker Roles), Web
Apps, Caching, SQL Azure, NoSQL, Storage, Networking, Azure AD, API Management,
Scheduling, Auto-scaling, and PowerShell automation.
 Developed and implemented YAML scripts in CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment
and configuration of applications, ensuring consistent releases across all environments.
 Defined infrastructure dependencies, provisioning orders, and deployment parameters in
YAML for efficient management of complex cloud architectures.
 Proficient in Operations Management tools including Splunk, Nagios, New Relic, Logstash,
and Kibana for log aggregation and system monitoring.
 Configured Internal Load Balancers, Load Balanced Sets, and Azure Traffic Manager to
manage application traffic and optimize performance.
 Built and managed ETL data pipelines in GCP using Apache Airflow and various operators.
 Involved in designing and implementing Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions and services.
 Identified and executed opportunities to enhance infrastructure efficiency using Office 365,
Windows Server 2008/2012/R2, SQL Server, Visual Studio, PowerShell, and Azure cloud
platforms.
  Implemented robust AKS monitoring solutions using Prometheus and Grafana, ensuring
cluster health and availability.
 Managed Azure resources tied to AKS, including virtual networks, storage accounts, and
AAD integration.
 Performed resource optimization and AKS configuration tuning based on workload
requirements to reduce cost and improve performance.
 Designed and implemented auto-scaling strategies to dynamically manage cloud resources
according to application load.
 Coordinated with DevOps and Service Release teams and collaborated closely with
virtualization specialists using Git, Jenkins, and the Atlassian stack.
 Utilized AWS Glue for ETL processes to ingest data from S3 into Redshift.
 Automated Kubernetes infrastructure deployments using infrastructure-as-code practices.
 Hands-on experience with Octopus Deploy for deploying containerized applications to
production environments.
 Deep experience in automating environment provisioning and application deployment using
Ansible in Azure.
 Configured Delta Lake in Azure Databricks to store incremental delta records in the HES
Data Lake for consumption by Azure Cognitive Search (ACS) using the Canonical Model.
 Strong experience with MS SQL Server, including T-SQL and SSIS for data integration and
transformation.
 Participated in capacity planning and API Management (APIM) projects to ensure scalable
infrastructure provisioning.
 Led the setup and delivery of Command Center operations, including operational dashboards,
system monitoring, alerting, and reporting.
 Configured and managed Azure VMs, virtual networks, storage accounts, and other
infrastructure components to support customer environments.
 Provided technical support and troubleshooting for Azure services, including client
onboarding and ongoing service request management.

Salesforce – San Francisco, CA Aug 2019 – Dec 2021

Devops/AWS Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Highly motivated and committed AWS Engineer experienced in Automating, Configuring and
deploying instances on AWS, Azure cloud environments.
 Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, creating security groups, auto-
scaling, load balancers in the defined virtual private connections.
 Build Cloud Formation Templates and stacks for continuous Integration to launch multiple
AWS services (EC2, ELB, Auto-Scaling) using JSON.
 Monitored various metrics like CPU Utilization, Swap Usage, Database connections, Current
Connections, Read IOPS/Write IOPS etc. using Cloud Watch on different services like EBS,
Elastic Cache, RDS, ELB etc.
 Created Terraform Modules for individual cloud resources and master terraform template for
entire application
 Created EC2 Instances for Web based Applications and attached Elastic Load Balancing
(ELB)for high performance across multiple AZ's.
  Design of server less application architecture using S3, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB,
Route53 and SQS.
 Automate Deployment using configuration Management tool like ansible to provision AWS
Instances to enable continuous Deployments.
 Involved in maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, DynamoDB,
SES, SQS and SNS services in cloud.
 Configured VPC in public subnets and private Subnets for web applications.
 Worked on Auto scaling, Cloud watch(monitoring), AWS Elastic Beanstalk (app
deployments), Amazon S3(storage) and Amazon EBS (persistent disk storage).
 Experience in continuous integration technologies Bamboo and Jenkins. Designed and created
multiple deployment strategies using Continuous Integration and Continuous Development
Pipelines and configuration management tools with remote execution to ensure zero
downtime and shortened deployment cycles via automated deployments.
 Experience in Migrating applications and data from on-premise to cloud,
 Performed Integrated delivery (CI and CD process) Using Jenkins, Nexus, Yum and ansible.
 Responsible for proper functioning DEV/TEST/STG/PROD environments for these
applications.
 Performed Automation in Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform.
 Maintained Jenkins continuous integration infrastructure and automated releases to
DEV/TEST/STG/PROD environments.
Participated in after hours on-call rotation to support Ops performs deployments on PROD
environment.
 Managed Ansible Playbooks with Ansible roles. Used file module in Ansible playbook to
copy and remove files on remote systems.
 Deployed Front end applications into S3 buckets using s3 uploader.
 Created inventory in Ansible for automating the continuous deployment and wrote playbooks
using YAML scripting.
 Implemented and designed AWS virtual servers by Ansible roles to ensure deployment of
web applications. Worked with multiple development teams to troubleshot and resolve
issues.
 Integrated Selenium automation regression test suite in Jenkins build pipeline.
 Created and Managed Custom IAM Roles in Json and Yaml for Federated Identity roles and
services. Implemented Amazon Cognito Sync functionality in user applications.
 Knowledge of Source Code Management and Project Management tools (i.e. Subversion,
GIT).
 Good experience writing Manifests, Modules using Industry Best Practices for both
Deployment Automation and Infra Configuration Management.

Environment: RHEL 7, Cloud Formation Template, CDN, IAM, S3, EC2, AWS Cloud Watch,
SNS, VPC, ELB, Route53, VMware, Lambda, Terraform, Bastion Hosts, NACL's, Subnets,
Security Groups, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, Docker, Virtualization, Bash, Git/GitHub, Jenkins,
Maven, CI/CD

Vanguard - Malvern, PA Feb 2018 – Aug 2019

Devops/AWS Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Developed build and deployment processes for Pre-production environments.
  Designed and deployed AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load balancer,
Auto Scaling groups.
 Designed AWS Cloud Formation template to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT
(Network Address Translation) to ensure successful deployment of Web Applications and
database templates.
 Migrated an existing legacy infrastructure and recreated the entire environment within AWS.
 Worked on Python scripting to deploy the applications using Puppet across Linux servers.
 Developed the scripts to push patches, files and maintain configuration drift through the
Puppet Tool.
 Used ANT build tool for scripts deployment and deploy processes using Jenkins to move
from one environment to other.
 Configured Jenkins to build Java Code using Meta Case Software and done C.I process on the
java code generated.
 Maintained branches/forks in GITHUB version control for the changes made in cookbooks as
per release.
 Used Splunk APM for Service now ticketing tool, log aggregation and analysis on different
application servers and integrating the Splunk with Single Sign-On authentication and service
now ticketing tool
 Used Shell/Perl scripts for automation purpose.
 Used Nexus repository manager to share the artifacts by configuring the repository manager.
 Worked on continuous integration tool like Jenkins for End to End automation for all build
and deployments.
 Used Puppet and Urban code deploy tool for application delivery automation
 Worked on developing client-side web interface using HTML, CSS, Java Scripts and
deployed into S3 buckets.
 Worked on Puppet in Ruby to manage deployment automation.
 Automate-Testing, build and deployment by developing and maintaining the processes and
associated scripts/tools.
 Configured and maintained common Linux applications such as Apache, active, NFS, DHCP,
BIND, SSH, and SNMP.
 In the production environment implemented and configured Nagios for continuous monitoring
of applications and enabled notifications via emails and text messages.
 Involved in Building and configuring Red Hat Linux Servers using Kickstart server as
required for the project. Maintained maximum uptime and maximum performance capacity
for enterprise production, QA and UAT/staging.

Environment: Linux, Perl, AWS Services, VPC, IAM, Security, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins,
Nagios, PHP, Ruby, JIRA, GIT, Docker, Vagrant, SVN, Ant, Bash, JavaScript, HTML, CSS,
PowerShell, NT Command Shell.

State of Oregon, Salem, Portland June 2016 – Jan 2018

DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Deployed and managed many servers utilizing both traditional and cloud providers like
VMware and Amazon EC2 with the Chef and Puppet Configuration management through
initial technology development, and into production and maintenance.
 Designed and deployed AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load balancer,
Auto Scaling groups.
  Responsible for the building and deploying the artifacts into DEV, SIT and QA
Environments.
 Docker container configuration, activation, handling live webhosting & troubleshooting.
 Installed Chef Server Enterprise on workstation and bootstrapped the nodes using Knife.
 Implied in testing cookbooks on different platforms using Chef Kitchen.
 Hands-On knowledge with the Chef DK for storing cookbooks and in documenting the
pattern and use of Delivery CLI to automate the adeptness in Chef.
 Maintaining and accessing the infrastructure through Chef Compliance and Inspect the node
to test the infrastructure by specifying the policies to follow.
 Involved in writing Chef Cookbooks and Recipes to automate the deployment process and to
integrating Chef Cookbook.
 Implementing change requests raised by user for server configuration, kernel tuning, software
installation and OS hardening.
 Managing Linux VMs using puppet as per some Project requirement, have knowledge of
modules, manifests and roles on puppet.
 Worked in an agile development team to deliver an end-to-end continuous
integration/continuous delivery product in an open-source environment using tools like Chef,
Jenkins. Integrated delivery (CI and CD process) Using Jenkins, Nexus, Yum and Chef.
 Developed Configuration Management GIT from scratch and prepared documentation
accordingly.
 Involved in pushing the code to GitHub.
 Automated the process of release by pushing all the code to GitHub.
 Created Python scripts to totally automate AWS services which include web servers, ELB,
Cloud Front distribution, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and
application configuration, this script creates stacks, single servers, or joins web servers to
stacks.
 Troubleshoot the automation of Installing and configuring applications in the test
environments.

Environment: AWS, SVN, Jenkins, GIT, GITlab, Artifactory, WebSphere, Ansible, Chef, JIRA,
Confluence, Service now.

Indus Software Solutions – Hyderabad, India June 2012 - Dec 2014

Linux Admin
Responsibilities:
 Installing, configuring, monitoring system performance, system logs and activity, storage
management, user management, system and network security of Linux services.
 Experience on Virtualization technologies like VMware VSphere & XEN.
 Extensive use of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and RAID Administration.
 Installing, configuring and supporting Apache web server on Linux servers.
 Writing shell scripts and scheduling jobs using cron and crontab to automate the processes to
check disk usage, perform file systems cleanup, daily back-ups and push new changes out to
manage and maintain consistency.
 Experience in creating package and patch management.
 Installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting.
 Experience with Internet technologies including TCP/IP and HTTP.
 Experience in deploying and configuring LAMP stack - Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
 Determine the root cause of network outages and issues using Linux command line tools like
ifconfig, tcpdump, netstat, nslookup, host, who is and traceroute.
  Provided support by 24x7 shift rotation basis by on calls.

Environment: Red hat Linux, VMware, VSphere, XEN, LVM, RAID, RPM, Yum, DHCP, DNS, NFS,
FTP, Apache, MySQL and PHP

Education
 M.S in Computer Science Texas A&M University – Commerce – 2016
 Bachelors in ECE – JNTU Hyderabad - 2012